Worthy

Abigail Worthy is a character I developed for my play, Another Mother, which had its world premiere performance at The Essential Theatre Festival in Atlanta, GA, August 2017. The story serialized here covers roughly five years in her life, starting with her going to college in Portland, Oregon and ending with her acceptance into medical school in Atlanta, Georgia and slightly beyond.

Most of these segments were written within 24-hours of being posted between May and July of 2016. They are rough outlines of the story as it existed in my head at that time. Much of the story has evolved as a result of work I did getting Another Mother ready for production, and other developments, such as publication of the story collection Atlanta Stories: Fables of the New South, and the novel Rebecca, Too, in 2017 and 2018 respectively. The finished product will incorporate the larger story of Abigail, her mother Rhiannon and aunts, Regan and Rosalind, and her cousin Genevieve Duchard. Since posting these, the “expanded universe” which encompasses fictional Atlanta I’ve developed has expanded considerably.

The final piece, Worthy 51, was written after the play and represents the new direction I’m moving with the story.